Love Saves The Day - Music Event - Various services - 23/24.05.26

Bristol/North Somerset

  • Location
    Ashton Court, Bristol
  • Cause
    Music Event
  • Responsibility
    Event Organisers/Local Authority
  • Effective
    23/05/2026 - 24/05/2026

Our buses on services X1, X4, X6, X9 and U2 pass near to Ashton Court and allow travel to and from the Love Saves The Day festival from various destinations. However, there will be diversions affecting these services at certain times and on certain days, meaning they will stop further away than usual at certain times. Please check details below carefully for your service.

We expect delays in and around the area throughout the event, so please allow extra time to make your journey.

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The X1, X4, X6, X9 and U2 will be able to operate normal route in both directions until 21:00 on both days under marshal control. However, The Ashton and David Lloyd Leisure Centre bus stops will not be served in either direction all day, due to event traffic management.

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Services X1, X6, X9 and U2 will be diverted between 21:00 and last bus on both nights, via Winterstoke Road, the A38, Colliters Way and the A370 in both directions. The U2 will resume normal route from Lime Kiln Roundabout. We will be unable to serve the Winterstoke or Blackmoors Lane bus stops by Ashton Bridge during this times. Instead, buses will stop at the "Smyth Road" bus stops on Winterstoke Road by the KFC outside Ashton Gate Stadium.

Additionally on the X6 or X9, we won't be able to serve any stop in Long Ashton village, and on the X6, any stop between Failand and Summerhouse in Stone Edge Batch inclusive.

The stops the other side of the diversion are Flax Bourton Layby (X1), the Belmont Hill bus stop on Clevedon Road (X9/X6 still on diversion), Stone Edge Batch (X6).

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Service X4 between 21:00 and last bus heading towards Portishead after serving the Merchants Road bus stop in Hotwells will divert via The Portway and the M5, then serve Pill village as normal (resuming from the Harberfield Hill stops) and normal route to Portishead.

Service X4 heading towards Bristol will operate normal route as far as Pill village, and the Harberfield Hill stop, then divert back to the M5 junction, over the Avonmouth Bridge on the m5, and down the Portway into Bristol, resuming normal route from Hotwell (Trinity Church stop).

The bus stops between Winterstoke Road/Blackmoors Lane at Ashton and Blackmoor Road prior to the Pill Road turning inclusive - including all stops in Abbots Leigh - will not be served. The nearest stops to the event will be the stops at Hotwells: Merchants Road towards Portishead, and Trinity Church towards Bristol.

Journeys the night closures will affect are as below:

Saturday 23rd May:

X1 From Bristol - 19:55 journey onwards

X1 From WsM - 20:50 journey onwards

X4 From Bristol - 21:05 journey onwards

X4 From Portishead - 20:49 journey onwards

X6 From Bristol - 20:45 journey onwards

X6 From Clevedon - 20:40 journey onwards

X9 From Bristol - 21:05 journey onwards

X9 From Nailsea - 20:42 journey onwards

U2 From Bristol - 21:00 journey onwards

U2 From WsM - 21:15 journey onwards

Sunday 24th May:

X1 From Bristol - 21:35 journey onwards

X1 From WsM - 20:22 journey onwards

X4 From Bristol - 21:10 journey onwards

X4 From Portishead - 21:23 journey onwards

X6 From Bristol - 20:45 journey onwards

X6 From Clevedon - 20:41 journey onwards

 

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